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Guys, you know there's also trading right? You could trade over staryus, seels, remoraids, water stones, etc. to get what you want. You also could just get a psyduck or azurill and train it until you can get one of them. Simple as that.

Or the Pokémon distribution could have been handled with more thought.

I prefer not trading for team members, especially during my first playthrough.

Or the Pokémon distribution could have been handled with more thought.

I prefer not trading for team members, especially during my first playthrough.

Well than that's you. There not gonna suit the game just to fit you're specific liking.

Originally Posted by GoldCyndaquil

Guys, you know there's also trading right? You could trade over staryus, seels, remoraids, water stones, etc. to get what you want. You also could just get a psyduck or azurill and train it until you can get one of them. Simple as that.

Uhm, jsyk not everyone has access to two DS systems to trade, and I'm pretty sure those who dislike trading Pokemon in their first run aren't in the minority.

But yeah I completely agree with The Eleventh in that the distribution of Water types was pretty poor. You get Surf after Clay, don't you? Having even just one of Staryu, Remoraid and friends available through surfing in a place accessible before Undella would've been nice.

The availability of Water types is very disappointing. There are few that can be obtained early in the game, and the majority are relegated to post-Gym 6 (I think).

I really don't know which Water type I'll use, and I've never had that problem before.

The distribution in general was handled very poorly, but yeah, they could've at least put some more in Driftveil City and Virbank City/Complex.

Originally Posted by cascadethewarrior

Well than that's you. There not gonna suit the game just to fit you're specific liking.

That's a fault of the game if there aren't that many viable options at a reasonable point in the game, and a perfectly justified complaint. I mean, it's one thing with some of the more powerful Pokemon in the game like Metagross, but a lot of the ones restricted to late and post game aren't really powerful enough to warrant their position. Plus, many of the ones available only in post game aren't even seen on trainer rosters until then, making them pointless additions. It's especially infuriating that Pokemon like Tyranitar are put into this position since they were directly advertised to be part of the Unova Dex before we even knew what was in it. There's no way to justify the decisions they made in regard to Pokemon distribution in this game, there just isn't.

Originally Posted by LizardonX

Tabitha has really let himself go, just how many lava cookies did he eat in the last 11 years?

You can either find a Water Stone in dust clouds in the Relic Passage or just buy one from the PWT for 3BP.

Given that you have to beat it once to progress in the story, surely it's not too hard to beat it twice more?

Getting stones in the dust clouds is extremely annoying. I don't have that kind of patients >.> Maybe I'll just get remoraid instead, it will get rid of my having 6 pokemon before the 3rd gym leader problem anyways XD

Getting stones in the dust clouds is extremely annoying. I don't have that kind of patients >.> Maybe I'll just get remoraid instead, it will get rid of my having 6 pokemon before the 3rd gym leader problem anyways XD

Wait..certain evolution stones are only available in certain dust cloud locations 0_0..? I thought it was any dust cloud.

They are in any cloud, the Relic Passage is just the earliest place where dust clouds appear.

Originally Posted by Nibbles2007

Getting stones in the dust clouds is extremely annoying. I don't have that kind of patients >.> Maybe I'll just get remoraid instead, it will get rid of my having 6 pokemon before the 3rd gym leader problem anyways XD